THE 1 SUNDAY OREGOXIAX. PORTLAND, JASUAKY 13, 1907.
51
"Warm fireside nooksthe newest
books,
A chummy friend like you,
A. wife that's fair an easy-chair,--
A bowl end pipes for tyro.
BeJsiirMe Caaflrrnsrtfoms of Old Testament
HlstofT, toy Gor( Fredarlck Mrifht, JD.
IX, r. O. S. Illustrated, $2. The Blbllo-
I theci b'acra Co.. Obcrlln, 0., and the J.
l K. Olll Co.. Portland.
The dsy 1st p&ased common ense and
scholarship be praised when theologian
will cram down our unwilling uWU
their time worn theory, which they in
ula t is Inspired from t he Scriptures, that
th world wa created 4O0 B. C, and that
the terms "days," mentioned In Genesis,
mean Interval of time about 24 hours
each. And the more liberal of these tlieo-
' tha !
hnM o n I
loiana do not any moro consl
devil and his angels those who hold to-an
honet but oppuHlte opinion. Dr. Wrljrht,
former preacher and affrward profesHor
of the Liingua fee and Literature of the
New Testament la Oberlin Theological
Seminary, and at present the accom
plished editor of the archaeological maKH
zlne. The "Records of the .Past, is a.ble
to reconcile the teachings of the Bible
with the researches of modern .science.
It Is all a matter of Interpretation,
after all.
Dr. Wright's "Selentinc Confirmations
of Old Testament History." is the result
of 40 years' continuous atudy of the sub
jects discussed, and It Is lgnirlcant that
fit 3 view and researches are marked by
riw scholarship, liberality, and sanity.
His book is so attractive that it will be
found IntreBtlriK and eatly understood
by the man of common-school education
ffho candidly wishes to read iho Bible
narrative in the llg-ht of litjeher criticism.
And to ta Vco tidVHntaite of deliverances
from modern souluxlats, rchaeuloKlsts,
m$ ftymoiogifits, The psjfs are 1?Q
tilled with valuable Information drawn
from the author's on tire Meld of study
and travel, which embraces the lararor
part of the Kortliern hemisphere In both
continents. The book Is timely !n view
of the start of Sunday school lessons for
1K7.
Aa tor ouch Biblical events as the years
of (amine and plenty In Eeynt. the cross-
Ins; of the Jordan, the falling of the walls
of Jericho, and the destruction of Sadoui
and Gomorrah, these according to Dr.
Wright are natural phenomena which are
now easily understood through the light
of modern science. He believes that tho
flood was an actual occurrence, that it
must be considered to be connected with
the extensive earth movements accom-
panyinK the Rtaclul epoeh. and that It
took: piaoe in the Buphrates Valley where
the last, remnant or the Human race was
located at that time. He shows that "the
ice piled up over tho slu.cin.ted area of
the Northern hemisphere would weight
pearly a much up the whole Jfgrtli
American continent, and Is Itself probably
a cause suf flcien t to disturb the equil
ibrium of the earth's crust. and produce
the change of level nlnoe man came Into
thft world, of which there is so muoh
evidence."
Now for the flrt chapter of Genesis.
Tr. Wright thin Ka tJiat the purpose of
tins particular chanter m to impart H
rclentlflc but reliffious truth and that the
object of the brief hletory of the human
race from the creation to tho time of
ADraijam, "covering a period ot unKnown
thousands of years. was likewise rc-
IIrIoiw. Mention in muxle that Sir. J. W.
UHwnon mid others would place the
founn ciKjumfmcnt of the children of
larae! some distance north of tho preofnt
pouthcrly cxtenalon of tha larger of the
Bitter lakea.
To better illustrate the parting ot the
wkteri cf the Jordan. Br. Wright In.
stance that a similar- Interruption of I Ho
waters of the Columbia River, in Oregon,
Is known to have occurred at the Ctus-
cudii, where an old channel wis pernvi-
nently obstrurted by an immense land
lide. produclnar a ta.lce above, whose out
let -is still over the rocks, which causes
Kie cascade These submersed trees to-
rether with the lo?r stUl reach of m-ater
shove, at once BUSeract that an obstacle
ha been placed athwart the tstreum.
rormlnf dam willed convened the
river vnllev above It Into ft Ion?, narrow
lake. atnd that the rloiiiK 1tfr tlb
merajed a.n old forest of which these trees
are the vestiges.
Of Btrlklngr Interest are the chapters
on the detune. with the Biblical and
cuneiform Accounts ariven side by side.
The cuneiform tables mentioned are those
dUcovtrad by George Smith about 1S70
and supposed to date from at least 3000
Ft. O. . and the translation from Berosue.
Ur. Wright says In passing that accord-
tng to the ordinary Interpretation of the
Itibllcal account, the deluee continued
one year and 1? daya, and that accardlnjr
to the cuneiform tablet it lasted only
It days,
This Quotation will fthow Dr. V right's
clearly cut tyle of writing)
lit the ntuflea in the nrth chapter of
Ciifsls, ten generations ar mention tf
twen Adam. and Noah, snd tho sue of the
parent at the time or the birch of the man
-who la nct In th- chain, 1m In each
flven. In th lUh chapter, ten more genera-
ttor. between Ko&h and Abrkham are men
tioned in the M.m manner that le. the iik
'or the gta.ront at the birth ot a.ch succor
iv son is f tvon in denxilte nsures. So that
A song or two, the kind that woo
Our thoughts from care and strife,
A mind that's bent on sweet content:
This is the Happy Life."
-HARVEY PEAKE.
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by addlns- together these euro ts the date
of Abrstimm which Is IBIS 33 . C a. Arch -
blah op Veher did, we eL the dates which are
found In the margins of many of our English
Bibles of the creation of man. 'namely 400-
H . (.7 . . an cl of th flood. 2X18 H - t -
Dr. Wright, to set out of what mifrht
prove to be close quarters, retorts ttwt the
linked goneoloelcal tables referred to
were not intended by their writer nor un
derstood by bis readers to ttach a. defi
nite chronology, but "simply to show
lines of descent In which any number of
Intermediate links may be omitted wit h-
out Interfering with tbe purpose of the
tableH." Dr. Wright is even orthodox
enough to Incline to the opinion that Cen
tral Asia Is the original home of man
kind. In general. he hold tht tho
strength of truth in historical state
ments of the Bible la not diminished but
Increased by modern scientific investiga
tion. Scorn of Women, in three acts, by Jack
London. $1.2.. The Macmillan Pew
York c:tty. and th
K. Olll Co.. Portland.
What would the
world say if a play
or a novel by the author of "The Call
of the WIlil' be labelled: "John' Ipu-
don ? It would surely be a cheap cus
tom were our novelists .to announce
themselves as Bill, Bod or DtcKt uni-
formly epeakinff, however, Ixmdon'a lit
erary work Is so original and masterful
that any atyle of name the author
chooses is immaterial,
An Indian humorist who occasionally
us.. brimritone words, several tlogn, a.
womin with n. past, und u. tlash of hiiow
und ire eltlier in AlasKa or the TuHon
und tliere you have ft bottltd-up Loiiuon
romance. This Is true of "Scorn of
ii 1 1 1 11 . ' " London'a new play, starting In
1697 in the AlKBka Commercial Com-
Daiiy's store at Cawsun. Yukon territory
the en tire action occurins; in 13 hours.
The prlnolpal character in it is to. Ureek
grirl named Freda Moloof, who is thus
described: "A dancer: speaks iicrfeot
Rnlixh. but withal has that slight Indo
nnablf! foreiKn touch of accent: goad XJx-
ure, willowy, yet not too slender; of In-
determinate age. possibly no more than
25: her furs i
the Y ti kon co
Michaels: and
lii of wen."
5: her furs the most maRnltlccnt In
the Y ti kon country trom Chilcoot to St.
Michaels: and her name common on the
Opposite to
Vfindcrlip, i
2.1K)0,000. but
Opposite to Freda in the play ia Kloyd
vjindrTlli, an Eldorado kin r- worth
2.i-oo,ooo. but although he is big-muucled
and blg-bodled be Is just the sort ot a man
whom clever women can tie Into knots.
VautJiTllp ie really ensaKed to mrry
one Flossie she of the wo ft and cllntf Ins
Rind with pretty pouting lips and blow
away hair. She Is on her way to Daw-
o:i to marry him whoi i the latter dls
covers that he also loves Freda fuloof,
ana Loraine Lisznayi, a Hungarian ad
venturess no lonrer In the first blush of
youth. Indeed, Vanderllp isn't very xure
whether or not he also loves Aire. ISppinK-
weii. wir of the special asent for the
Vultecl Slates finvernment.
Vanderllp
and Lorain o are on the point of loplng
toarethcr -whon Freda rflscove rs their plot.
and Tor the anke of Flossie, the pur
and Loral n o are on the poln
tonetlicr -whon Freda dleoovei
and for the poke of Flossh
alrl vhftm VaiuWHp Womli!J to marry.
Fredn make herself a social martyr for
his sake. Herp i r one svi r-ret I ve dia
logue a li London between Vanderlip anil
Freda: "When you came acalnsl me and
rested your hoed on my hronct so that the
cn t of vouc- hair orot Into my frain and
rnnddened me," etc. f
. Tbe comedy clement Is curdled by
Sitka Charley, an Indian - doj puncher,
and Mrs. MiFec. a tnlddle-atrfd Scotch
woman, wliofo sharp noe easrerly leads
ber to pry into tbe afrairs of otbprs.
Pflsh. snap and color mark the oon-
ntriictton of the play and the action If
r-iirlv exefttne- hut uuleier than t lie usual
T tindnn i?ranfl( wlildi penerally gncHg pen
satlon. Its Inherent dramatic visor will
surel v hri njar the pin v success when it
appears on the boardf.
In fte Tire of the Hurl, fcy Etlph Waldo
Trine. Meflur. Phillips & Co.. New YorJc
CTJtj-. and the J. K. Gill Co.. Portland.
A spreat Btateaman once defined poll-
tics as that vehicle which directs the
happiness of the common people. And
as the faithful herald of a similar doc
trine of comfort and cheer. Air. Trine
Fives this most Interesting sociological
study.
In plain laniruasre that baa no double
meanlnK, aa Kmeruon or Henry Qeorgo
would nave written, Mr, Trine ehowj
that our system of representative jrov-
erntnent has Its leper spots, and that
many of the men we send to make laws
tor us are bought up -like sheep t)y
moneyed Intcresta whlrh rule us in
stead, for Instance, it I-i shown, at tho
prevent moment that Instead of tho
people ot New york etate having two
representatives in the United State
Senate as a matter of fact a ;X e w
York express company has one repre
sentative there, and a very rich family
of railroad owners has the other. Truly
a merciless but Just -view of United
States Vjin atom Piatt and repew.
-A.3 a pauvca tr. Trine advocates
- v tf-4
direct primary legislation and the Ini
tiative and rofiTf nd n in as we know
thttwe measurea. In,' Oregon. Indeed, he
Klyrra favorable resume of conditions
In Oregon generated by the measures
described. The hh!o - of public fran
ghlaes, the greed of corporate Wealth.
ana the.,Tl?e el raeplpy -pliHucracy
asserting te itself the Cod-given right
to manMre public n t ) 1 i t i In any wav tt
pleue. theac are pictured with vigor
and otirring purporse.
The book Is a valuable one to place
In the hands of & yount; man Just
awakening to the responsltillltloii of
civic life and who In hia perplexity to
cling to one ot the two great political
parties forgets that his primary duty
as a. voter first belongH to his city vnd
state, and that mere party Is not. every-
thin?. Mr, Trine gives a powerful
pliture of the end of a plutocrat whose
one passion In life was to make money
and keep it: 1
The greed of gain becomes his mister
and drlts up his very powerB of enjoyriient
thp flnr thinfcs In life. He accumulates
S lOO.llOO.OOO with fill tho" cure and worry
ttiut kecplnir this invented to tbe beat advaur
tttge means. He dies. Three pi'onths aftr he
has Rone, hts name in scarcely ever heard
except perhaps in some lonr-cl rawn-out or
bttteriy-tousht win contest, tus ciw is iik
that of a duK. In short, many a- do HEaith-
ful, Intelligent and uscfulr-ha';been Wore
rtenulnely mourned and longer ana more
irnicrniiy rememnerea. -
This human cry voiced by the itfshop
ol Exeter Is notedj
Oive us men! " r V
Stronj? und stalwart one;-..
Men whom highest hope Inspires,
Wen whom purest honor nres; f
Men who trample self beneath them,
Men who make their country wreath them
A. a her noble ons.
Worthy ot tfceir sirea.
Men who never shainc their mothers.
Men who never shainc their motr
r t a M it i .
iitn wno never ran tnoir orotiuTs,
True, however fale
)thcra;
y a train. , ,
rarmlnar Almaniic. lflfi.. mvai by tliude
II. Miller. Ph. B- Doubleday. Fa;e A. Co.
K w "V o r te O i t y . , -
it la noteworthy that, according tf) eml-
ncnt authorities, the second pleta of
printing1 done In the American colonies
wae an almanac. And today the almanac
is as useful as in the year 1731., when the
almanac "Poor Richard" was started
In Philadelphia by Benjamin Kranklln,
hecausu he needed ready nionoy. Mr.
3Illlei-s almanac is a ror.l almanac und
icrcrcnw uouk lor trie farm as well as
the home. Within Its 10ft pases aro con
tained special planting time-tables, rules
for foretell Ins the weather, farm law,
arithmetic, rules ror hcaltti, simple reme
dies for the diseases of farm animals,
useful recipes and household lain ts. 12
immediate service coupons, etc. Orenon
gei its share of mention, ana the bOOK
la sure to find its way to all farmhou
Its material Is well selected and
uonted with the utmost, care.
ses.
pre-
Tbe House or the Hundred doob, by Will
M. Clemens. The Hawthorne Press, New
Tork City.
The title of this little story of 4X paea
BtifgeBts a ctunese vr Japanese begin-
nine, but Instead one meets with an ex
pose of vivisection. Five of the chap
ters tell charinlngly of various iIorb, one
dos timt went to ctiurcU to pray, another
flog tliat W4s an authority on etiquette.
and yet another Beauty, "a IMaclc-and-tM.
a wlctacltnr. wiry mite or a dog ttiat
Qrougni -witn niro 10 ins new home a
llttlf! yelp. H little bark and a little
nunaie or nerves." All the dates aro
snlsed and taken to the Houmc oC the
.Hundred Doors, where thev find other
animals captive and ready (or the vlvl.
BertloniBt's lance and needle. A simple
story told In kuo h plain lansuaso that a
child can understand It.
John ftherinan. by Tlifodoro K. Burt
on. 1.SS.
JtouKiiion. Mimin - Co., Boato;
J. K. C511I Oo.. I'"rt!.ml
unci lha
Jtmt the klna of a book to place 111
the hands of young: Amorlean a study
of one of tho strons-est Americans of
our generation. For John .Sherman's
public career as a member of the HOUSQ
of Representatives and of the genat.
Secretary of the Treasury and Secre
tary of State, extended from March 4.
1S55, to April 27, lss, a period of more
than 43 years, He died at Washington
In October. 1S00. The book belongs to
the "American Statesmen." second
series, and 1b compact without belns
dry, and brilliant without being ful-
some. Mr. Burton gives an educative
picture of political conditions which
cannot fail to interest the reader.
Tiles Trom the Porcelain Tower, by Edward
UllchrlMt. 9 The Book Koom. Boston,
and the J. K.. Gill Co., Portland.
A volume of superior poetry which
Is as different from cheap verse as
china Is from earthenware. The 3S
poems sing a uong of dinlf led beaut y
and speak a calm of philosophy that
harks back to Omar Khayyam.
M. Q.
IX JLIBKAItl AND WORKSHOP
Braumont nd Fletcher were th nrst to
collaborate plays in JaCnslixh literature.
London puncli suggests as one way of
raising revenue that every "authoress and
author shall be subject to an adjective tax.
Kate Douglas Wlggin's popular story .of
"rtebecea of Bunny brook Farm" has nou
been I f.Skji In aomew tiat. abbiavlated form in
X-elpxis-
Of the 1000 eopies of the epeelal quarto
edition of "Benj.mlD Frnkltn' Autobloe-raphy.-'
published t;y Houfihton. MlfTlln e
Co., 8oO have already been subscribed for.
A nw. novel hi announced by William de-
Xlorgun, whose "Joseph Vmice" na ri'Cfclrt-.I
praise from loailltiir c-rU lc- both here and
bvoad. The new book win bear the title
"Alice or Short."
-A coal company recently ordered a copy
of the novel 'The Divine Fire' from Henry
Holt & Co., and now the same publishers
have received an order from a lumber cor
poration for ''The Lo of tha Sun."
One Indication of the world-wide Interest
In the Panama canal 1 the fact that Cas
lell 4 Ca.t of London have, already secured
rights for the E.nfllsh market or Willis
Fletcher Jo I n -on" ' 'Four Ccnturlo of lae
Panama- Cuu.l."
Josephine Preston Peabody. author of
"Marlowe," Ths isinslntc Loaves." etu.. who
has been tra vetliif; 1 1 Kuropr l :;- her mar
rinrT last June to Professor l.lonf Maries,
vt Hurvara University, is now u presaen tor
th Winter and has again taken ui hor lit
erary work.
alias Kate Sanborn, one or. the pioneer
reclaimers or aiwifloncd farms, tins pub-
tUuied an inter?nThif and unlauo tllimtraied
book on old-fash:oetI wall pnpen. oahe not
unly fluda time for "farm! if and bouk -making,
but v rites columns of lively bouk re-
view, nd outoitoTn topics for a dally
paper. -
I1T Mo
tr "Whit," whose Hrm book,
a tale ot the fllldulc Wes;,
"The upstart,"
follows a numbor of short stories. wflUa'of
conditions and characters with which be is
laminar. He is a natlv of IlJInolf. ana 1m
now editor or the Technical Worm Alagia-
ine, after sevtea years' work on ihe editorial
fian ot tne Clilcago Tribune.
t
re tm proposed to purcliaM the
Ktowey. Enclanil. In v hieti Co! Mttiva
wrote "The Ancient Mariner.". 'ChrUtabei"
ana others of iiln nnest poems and to m
it ks far as possible in the atate In whlnh It
wa durinjE the pott'i raild-n-e. It p.-an in
tl:i col Ian.- tliat Colerlrtae nurtaliiMt Wll
lim and Dorothy Wadsworth, CbarUAiamb,
wmiani Haunt and otucri,
rr. ' H 1 1 a. m E. C3rrinls. whose hotcB on
Hoi land .'- ivldcly Known. ri ae rturned
from -hi seventh trip ot obervatifq and
study m Europe, during wnicl) He uttcnfled
the Rembrandt trctnter.Rry In Holland.
This Winter ha will deliver t hrea-f ct u r.-w :
"On t.Uv Dut'-ii at Ho m "Paulal. WUhiIc
and IJtarary Holland." and "On Rembrandt:
tha Man, tilt Country n(J HU Ait"
Tha cover dealrrn of m. Boyd ltfmlt!i' pio-
ir mcinn. r lr o oft "The Ktrtry tif I '.. -
anonvas ana. captain on n nmi I it
m ?r nnn ot tug Virginia colour, qoi tiie
lal of the State of Virginia, Tfee eoat of
arm, with Its crait and motto, l a fac--simile
or th originnl. in plao of th con
ventional ' supporter. Mr. Hrnith has .used
roc6tiont ana John smltn, (tiey "oclfir uvs
"aopporteru" of tha Virginia Colony, accord-
lnff to the story. '
Of the first edition of "The Ilfr ancl "I.et-
ters of Ufcadlo Hearn," by Elizabeth Ills-
lahd. 200 ropie have . bn printea tund
iiouiid entirely Uncut, with papor Ia1l, utiU
con tat nlng a paecrt of Hearn original innu-sc-rlpi,
which will rIv -Uim copies- T) un
usual auravtiai) mong ull lovers of first
frdltldns.. Various reVleu ra fiave - said that
TIearn's letters here published srfc ' the mot
intercitins and Important 1 nc-c those of
Bmvnon. yi t sac raid and Lowell,
t
G. Btrnerd IMHaw's now book. "Dramatis
Opinions and Kixaya." appean Jtint in ad
vmice of Tolnl'jl'n book on Hltaki-apa-at r- . to
which Bhaw is said to have -contributed a
ou of fctm-aiotion. ot course, piiaw'f Klcn
llty has Iten Oi;t!onr(l So perilstcntly
does he tay tn the other aids of the water
that thn American public, not bavins ocu
lar prnor to the contrary, be) lews that he
U a rreatt coosclrnciU'ss eyndlcalc, and not
a lone, misunderstood Individual. ; t
mm
Evr elnee th dsy of publication of the
"Holtenlohe Memoirs." the publishers have
been raclnj tu keep pace vith tlia demand
for the Work. Tha first printing was en
tirely axhauatefl In atdvanc. of publication,
i i' 1 1 It v.' not until last wrt-lt tlia.t til. ux-
ply of eoples rauitit up with lUe denmna.
In the mconilrau, orders from .tha' large
beokaullrr. wer cut tn two by the publith-
ers. in order to divide th. evallablo supply
a-x laa fooata aa avemy a lid lairiy taa
.slMfj. . - . .. f,
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. Another painting of Mary McNll Peuol
l"a g (Sidney McCain "Truth Dpttnr,"
which was brought out In a new Illustrated
edition last Hprlng, is announced, Nearly
HK).000 copies of this popular Amfvlctit
romance lievo been aolrt. With "The Urjxon
Painter" said to b Mra. fcnolloaa's rlpeat
and most artistic work, on the road to per-
manent success, tun- talented Author S
now arltlni a novtl dealing txcluslvrly
Tte m of romance are becoming al-
most as tlilckly Ftrewn with lolands as the
oceann of comic op-ra. Tlif tataire Has glvrn
ua I ml frf nf Clam pas lie, Inlvi of Pplc, Il-a
of By-and-Bj- and so without number. Ttob-
ert touls etevenson seems to have bun
puilty .-.f start inr the tltlfc craze in ro.
manllc geography. HH "Tri'awiro Julanrl"
wk followea toy Marrlot , WataAn's " Hiarri-
canu Island." jsow cornea Mla Zona Oale,
ot the poetic name, with "Itomanco Island."
located , somewhei la the fairy seas south
of rh Aaoroa. hut dlaroverntilo only by
tliosu who undir-tanrl t riJHtilio my li
ter! t'S of the fourth dlmenfioa'
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One of t ra m cut orlitinal of the recent
JTriKlih llluKtratfd Lo..lt ts a voiUTOO on
"Costume: Fanciful, Historical and That-
ricai," cQinpiitru Mid, Aria anfl llluaaatfsa
hy Pertfy AfttWiOn.' Mrs. Aria ha left the
tank of rrltlnjc a wulK-hty historical and
cintiflf trutis on covturae to others, M - r
own tum't has btvn -mora modest and, it
may be aaaeu, minutely more entertain-
inir
Soon will be publlsh-d Practical Proh--lotms
In HunlvlsiK nud Currency . " T t vol
ume will consist of addresses delivered be-
low tte Kationai Banking AsoclMlon In
recent years, and the Hat nf about 80 auth
ors includes many distinguished namea.
George Syiveoter Viereck, the extremely
yciUthfuL has the pleasure d tnlnc on tale
for the flrfU time a book of his own writ
1ns. "A On mi at L'.v." it ts decked in
r and eiid and Innide and out la worthy
of more than jmssiug notice. The auttmr
Is Indeed ttrunely touched with tli mod-
ern view of love-mftkingr, but beneath it all
there tn the wondorful O erm n n ocntlment
that pervades all ti in love situations, and
causes one to remember what a recent nov-
tllst said that nu woman had really Wn
made love to artistically until the had had
a German lover. Vltrrck. however, needs
to rii Mv-1 - the New Yot R.ir a little more
ciofeiy, fcr it Is Impossible to thlnK of his
charactorg as real, live Kew Yorkers. The
atmosphere is n;t there.
An amualrifr hoolt-liunttrin story is told by
thr. Fails Iic;iir, A touqulnlsle C tlio riVH
Bauchr latoly. mirft.nprtl at an auction -
little volume, or y:it pane, for I franc. HV
cat.loEU-d It i. I .". franco but no on. ' 11 1 1 1
It: H r. t li :i jn I '1 it ait -4 franc, n.xt a - 3
franca and at lost al 2 francs 50 centimes
It was consigned to llio limbo of tlie Wes
en the u.uai. The bool-t was a copy of the
"Oeiivra Oomplet cm." of Joan !.. valtita. a. n
academician of the year 3 1 . Just at this
time, hyt a curious coincidence, J. Fred-
tt'ln MaRson mi a Dap-r at the Institute
on this Ue valnes. reveallns the fact that of
the -Oouvre Completna" only 14 examples
N- t-r. (irinted, of whlt-h only four had been
traced. The purchase, eo far from gotns
besitini,' at 2 francs and 50 centimes, found
a ready buyer at 1250 francs.
Stephan Qwynn Is a man after Justin Mc-
Crtb" '"n hart. Thy arc hoth Irlsn-
m-n. as as literary men. and th vcriu
atlllty of each is matched only by that of
th- other for Mr. Owynn, like XI r. Aic-
Carthy, ha, written novels, essays and de-
eci'Jptive works, besides hlatorj- and biog
raphy. But Mr. Owynn'x latest bid for
Mr. McCarthy's admiration, in his election
to Parliament a. thr NutlonnliFt member
for the City of Galway, is also the rtrona--
est. "Stephen Gwynn U a man of intellect
and of high education." said Mr. McCarthy
in a recent article in The Independent,
-who won rrucli unlviralty distinction, and
has made for himself a great success as
ail author of boohs and a- writer for re
views and magazines. . . I - confi
dent that he -will win for himself a dis
tinction in that political path of Itf r.
as h has already done in other paths. Mis
election speeches show that h la likely ii
hava a grsat guccosa In the House.'1
ti w story. -"The
nublibiied in Eua-
ton, and a law first edition ha- been
printed to supplv the advance orden In.
"The Malefactor." Mr. Oppi-nhalm employs
Greatest movsritase r s wono-ri 114
ult its an
orhiner
Story wMct. Is ' UKtMy to to m (jreaten
success. .Sir Wingrave Seton. re-entering
the world after an imprisonment chlval-
r-ourrt y faced. rather thnn doTijrui li im n.l f
strange events and baa a remarkable Influ
enca upon the people wlh whom h Is
brought tn contact. Daedrtd, brooding on
hie wrongs. youn, wealthy and free, he
ttgins a new lit., ni Ui rt3r wonden
what will happen. Littl. Brown & Co., who
are the sole American publishers of Mr.
Oppanhftims novel. have Just reissued In
new illustrated ert HI one two of his earlier
stories, Enoch Strone," the story of the
events career of a masterful man, and "A
Sleeping Memory." a story in occultism,
with abundant love interest.
Tte following recent printings give good
evidence of books for which there Is a
strcnt. steady demand, says the Atlantic
Monthly: Thtrty-Bijhth edition of "To Have
and To Hold," by Mary Johnson. maKlng- a
total ot u2V,ooo copies; lth edition of "K.
hecca of Junnybrook Farm," by Kat
XOUKla? "WllCKln. ma Ulna; the lOOth thou
sand; IKth eiiltlon or "Jwb1." by Clara
Loulyp Burnham; 11th edition of "Caleb
West," by T. HopRlnson Smith; 10th edi
tion of "AnuTlcan Traits," by Professor
Hupo McnetcrtTr; 7th edition of the vol.
umB or "Poem-A ly William Vaughn
Vo nlr eth edition of "The Opened Shut.
tfrr," by Clara - I-ouls Burnham ; 5th edl-
tior. of "The Immanence of God," by Bor
tan P. oou-nf; 4th editions of "The Clam-
m-.." hy William J. Hojkirja. and "Lin
cola ; l aster of Men," Ty a Ion x. Rot he
clilldr vil -dltions or "TTae Li f ear.d Lttora
or lafcaOio Hearn," by "Elizabeth Elsland,
und "KMdlnl St. Timothy's." by Arthur
S. V-ter: and 2d edltlous of "The Story of
I'oca 1 o-itn aud t'aptaln John Smith,'-' by
':. Bo-a rn.irTi. -CIOKin Xa of tha Itf
naisance in Komr." by Roaulfo J.o nclaiii.
Tri?ndtj cn th fihelt," ty Bradford Torrey,
The Plook,' by Mary Austin. "The ettb-
con .clou".' ' b- Frofaaaor Joseph Jnatrow.
The nolrten 6ooin.,r ,y i-.-a Maroh Tap
pan, and "Walt Whitman," by Bliss Forry.
' I " I
A few days. eo, . aayt a eorrespondent tn
Hie Boston Tmnscrtpt. t eaw the paraKrur'ai
from iScrlbnei M-fiR-asIne ttf whioiiKukli.
is quoted as sppHjns 'with irornrul amu-HV
meht of surK mlBlskfn enthusiasts &n wished
to enroll Jans Welch Carlyls amonit the
m any r. '" on ncroiint of her "man" a'" bad
temper. 1 ? ts muted to have acknoI etl k e 1
-that carlyle was frequently grumpy and
M' irritated, and (thli follovi) "that
ctvr shrew." his wife, a- 1 1 knew this, and
by th verv tons of her vulct as alie rvepd
out ti ! name, could set hi nervrp on e-ct S
in a paroxysm of febrile irritation, - Nrtu I
in far f:9m Demi onrcf tioip nilatal.cn
nt.iilslHt. because I am aa intense . lover
or Justice and hnve always claimed evaiy-
oortv-B rlnht to it. Thcr'r.irt' I would Iik
very much to prutmnt, iti conjunction with
tho paragraph above (fiven, In Which
kin is said to hav o.tl'ed Mrs. Oarlyle "tbat
clever shrtw." the following- quotation from
a letter rlltnn to myso!C ly n rrlenti of
both t h j Co r I y : e.. In London. February 20.
1S36. Mrs. oarlyle wm a hlgh-pirUcd won-
an with a sharp tongue, but how s.t und
how good shp was! I loved l)?r at first sight.
a nl aom r v hat to Mr, ltunl ln urprlsi
P"ke of her to him as ' swept -woman.
"Wle 1a a nweet woman, was his reply, 'but
now iki you find it out? Tfiat'8 not tlie
character aho i?pnerally bears.' f myself
would like ta ante anyone who knew Mr.
llii.k In ilietner he would Have li .'.-! lH:cly
to bextow the epl:hi "clever ahrew" upon
one wh'im hv aino rerognUed 8S "ft fwtet
WOninn." and If xvhat i thr value of his
characterisation either way? And especially,
i it Jitat to print on deacriptlon to tne ex
clusion of the other 7
Xothinr could exceed the efrlousnces with
""hlch wrlinrs or fli-tlon take thrait9lvca
nowadays. The artlet its alwayn nrrioua, in
a benao; but a portentous appreciftr(oB of
hlfl own valun to the world i!not hMfi-
pary to his work, says -th Providence Tt.
I. Journal si-s. irtrude At honor lia
teri -reeently dlacourslns-. with a iravl ty
wonny ot nun caine, upon tHt Impedance
of travl. If novelists. sh avi,- "Jo not
study Iffe and human nature at flrat hand
thf.y are iu Ot for the position." And she
poei on to re tat her own experience- "I
tuinK nothlpg," she arnrti, W irTeln
from Munich to California If I find mj
knjwledftt ts not definite enoutrh. and foi
R-izanirr' I "went 1 1 om San FmnclaGt . jfca
SttKa. a. trip of IS days. with- the - return
to Vancouver, B. . for th overland train.
for tin) mke of on chapter. And I found
It quit-. worth whil. for the .mental picture
I had n.ad-j of the place front mub descrip
tion was quit different from the reality. "
It is perfectly easy to understand how thin
can be with m admitting th conclusion
that M:. Athrton draws aa to novelists in
sreneral. Of course it Is well to visit SI tic a
brtaro writing about 1 1 . even if the late
General Wallaco did, write "Wen Kur", with
no personal knowledge of the scnoa d-
scrlhed. A ireenal impression muat he
miri vivid than one ralnd from print. J3ut
it tioeti Bit follow 't hat ths areatest nnv-
lst U li4 whoso .Tiige u t largest. "Tbe
writers of Action tjiat oonfin thmselvei
.to Giia locality. M says Mrs. . Atherton.
.'"whore they Cnd It-' convenient ox econom
ical to live, soon axbaust thexnaslvea and
drop betilp.a. Grerter nonwwa then this
Tould hardly hfc putiforth. Did Jn Austtn
exhaust herself becuuve she s w In all her
life only a small part of Knfland ? The
prosperity of a novel lis in the toward
ys of lilm whs writer it.
TTnlted States Bmator Knos. it is belle-red.
subscribes , reRulnrly to more magailnei,
newspapers ana othpr pfrloaicnU ilmn floel
ally other man In public Ufa. Ha receive
throuirh the
ails every month every popu
lar monthly
d rectilvea dally most of the
fiaily newspaper of F(tubur nd rhlla(3ir
pr.11, Bt'iines tn morning papcri of wash.
lng-tota and noma of those of Xew York and
Baltimore. In addillon to these sources of
lnformnllon anrt nttt iln m nl, n - Is a sub
scriber to nearly every weekly o-f both par-
tits In reniisylvanii. He Is an early riser.
and manages to kim through the most of
tho murnlnit paper., that r-ach him aoon
aiier day llcht. Letore breakfast, savH the
Washington, 1- c, Herald. When he re-
turns home in Uic CTenlQK H gloncf!
through ?neh paper as have been delivered
at his rosldenre after he had Isft for the
day's; work. When the house la quiet at
nijtjht he takes up his man"-l na and coun-
try weekllefl, vftlnj thl8 Hgilt reflfJJnff ffltfl
flips Into law books, rongrensinnal reports.
Supreme Court decisions." etc. How he finds
tiiT.t- to lie?i up with (lie latest novols
afttr doing nil the other reading: he Is Known
to 10 is h mystery, but mat He does 18 tV
(Unrtd fcy his thorough acquaintance with
them. In prepar'nir himlf f- the xrutt
prosecutions lie Innugura t-4. w-mio hold 1 net
the office of Attorney-General. Mr. K.n-x
read every ocrap of literature Bva)iah9 on
that groat subject. He paid particular at.
tention to the de-bates In Congrtiii ever since
the National lawn-inkers li B n ri to tU'runn the
power r,r tMe I- r il Government over tho
railroads and other hujte Bgref-atlom Of
capital. Hfi stated some time m that of all
the arg-uments made in Conprress on the trust
and related themVs those presented by tho
late no tor Oeorse. of M laal ippi, struck
him as the stronsest. most lucid, and en-
iwicnins. senator Georse must have beon
a lawyer of exceptional ability and lndu-
try." declared Senator Knox.
, That ffcntle phlloixjpher, WoncUfC P, COII'
Way. has hem hai'J from win. maklnir
hin reappearance with "My Pilxrimage to
the Wise Men of the East." a gossipy nar
rative of a Journey t h rough many of tha
Eastern lands, whr he -studied tiuman lja
ture. In Hindustan ha met Uana-ne Bia-
vatsky, who. h says, admitted franklv to
hint that who wau a f i-.u1 and a. IiumbuG
" titZ thus disarmed him and. prevented- him
from e.ttackinR her. The book la valuable
for many thlnsrs, and not tli kit for
another collection of thone fpisrammatlq
entence for which Mr. onway Is noted.
Here are sorne Of the latent ;
Who can love a Cusmoa?
I retard Theosnphy simnly as aplrltuallim
crati
a Knallnh man with a
flu J a crusader.
From I-foccacio's
Klametta to Goethe's
Gretchen it Is churclieotM that furalshri
the Iwprfl'
pportunity.
i hav ri
-pv , i that 1;
partir of the
ceeds the other
arrays itself
finely; the minority sc. dressln. plainly,
In Australia the ' womn. beinr relatively
f i w. are ourc of huibaodi without resort
ins to decoration.
I onr.e met Mr. Atkinson, Harriet Mar-
tenoau'a famous friend, and found the "Ba.
conlan Theory' was his nubtttttute for ChrlR-
tiaitity. That thin Idoa about Bacon wrlttna;
!?h akfspari rhoulrl flit arounil th- world
and nil Its believer with an exaltation and
ptiate tha irorhj cannot give is "hrnomenal.
Tf -'all th- world loves a lover." It would
seem possible that sf t r reading the "JL-ovo
Letters of IT-nry I II to Ami Boleyn."
which have just bcn iMFiird, a kindrr mem-
ory may b? Iwl of "Blutt Klny Hal" thnn
has uBually Wn accorded to him. Certain.
Jy these rRmorkable letters bear every evi
dence of iietrity and honest passion, and
thftir simple directness and unpretentious
utterance give them something that ap
proaches real literary charm. As befits ao
uniquf a volume, the book has been made in
an original fonuut by the 2rtrry mount Prasi
and the rieli. full leather -bindine maaes it
an Ideal glfc.
.XEW BOOKS RECEIVED.
Famous Hymns of the World. Tlielr Ori-
Kin ana Romance, liy Allan riutiieriana, 11-
lustrated. tl.Sd;. The Maklnpr of a House
wire, hy Imbt'I Oordon Curtis. US illustra
tion h. l.a.-.. P. -A.- titokea Co
The tetory Book Oirls, by Chriotina Gow-
ans White, 151.30. (Maclilllan.
The Sword of Wealth, by Henry Wilson
Thomas. S 1.30; Wemtward the Course of
Empire. t y Montf., m r y- ftchuyler. illus
trated, $ 1.25- Putnam's Eons.
: Tho Fairy Ring, edited by Kate Douftlaj
Wig-gin and Nora Archibald Smith. M.c-
Cltire. Phil 1 Ir".
. These stic TooKs wssrs rect)lvd
throue-h tbe J. K.. Gill Co.
Help Wanted"
our people could not compas., but,
honestly, aren't you proutl tht you live
Jn a iand where. in spite of the litsh
prices, the wage earnera have a. tota.1
or more than (our billions of dollars-
twenty billions of French francs, by the
way accumulated by their two moat
favored methods ot savinsT their sur
plus? Great Call for Graduates.
You may happen to know some one
who wishes to get work, or seems to,
but can't fret it, and this may have
kept you from appreciating? the de
gree to which "help" is "wanted" tu
tills country Just now. But did you
read the annual report of the Post
master General presented to Oontrress
at the boBlnnlnR of the present ses-
sion? ir aw, you remember tliat
he urged the raising of postal salaries.
not only "to meet the increased cost
of Hvlnar," but also oec&use, good men
in the service are constantly leaving H
sin re they can earn more elsewhere.
Between July 1 and Not-ember 1 last
year, for i natanre, 2.44 2 rural delivery
curriers resigned their Jobs, an ftver
age of 58 a month.
This Is unprecedented and so were last
year's resignations In other brandies.
.postal employes don't UKe to give up their
placet., even If they can earn more else-
w here, for such places are permanent.
Tout today Che cry of "help wanted" Is so
Btrony in man quarters that they are
resDufitJIna (a It In great numbers.
You m-oliahly didn't read the report of
-"Sl i" "ow York Civil Servlca Commissioner.
It indicated a imllfix state ot thins.
when it told about lists of candidates for
city places who had passed the exam
inations. lut were already employed when
the places were ready for them. Tills
situation Has caused a good deal of 'com
ment. So haa the fact, as reported re
cently by one of the district superintend
ents In ?se w York, that the metropolitan
available, supply of gcnool teachers is no
longer equal to the demand. The rela
tive number of youn sr men an d women
surf icleiitly educated for teaching does not
seem to have fallen off, out there is so
much greater demand for them now than
formerly in other callinars that they so
into them instead of teaching.
Nobody heard tljo cry for the help of
trained young: men more clearly than the
authorities of the colles-es and technical
acliDolH previous to srraduatlon time last
year. The cal was pot delayed until jut
before commencement season. It began
In the "Winter months and was voiced by
the .sxenti of all sorts of blac employers.
The secretary of one of the largest and
best known , lihlvenltlei' In the country
told the writer last March that jobs were
then - w<lns for every member of tho
graduating- class that he could recommend
as likely to do good work.
Situations were offered in bis: railroad
offices and In t h" offices of srreat mlnini,
commercial and manufacturing corpora-
tions,; Civil .engineers, electrical cng
n-eera and ' mechanical enfinerti were
Wanted. Suitable Jobs for graduates were
offered by the proprietors of department
stores, by trolley companies and by great
financial Institutions. There was an espe.
oiavlly etronir demand tor young men who
knew enoucrli of chemistry to help push
along the work that hue to be gone In
the laboratories which are such Impor.
tant features of the smeltlnB works,
the steel works and half a hundred of the
country's other great Indubtrles,
Must Be Competent and Willing.
iut and this is something- which must
not be lost sight ol-the cry for "help
wanted" In this country is one not to bo
satttsAod oy any except the thoroughly
competent.. The employers of the United
States have a job (or every one. but to
tret one of these jobs you must give sixns
of comnetence and to hold it you must
maKe good. The work to te douo is im
portant and would better not be done
than dono poorly.
That la one of the reasons why,' despite
the real shortage Qf worHtw, there often
seems to be a surplus, especially amon
those who believe themselves to be well
trained. Von cnuld rind a. sood many last
year's sclenttflc" graduates who have
hot yet found themseivea. while any man
well versed aa to the need for experts
In electricity. chemistry and sanitary,
mechanical and civil engineering can tell
you of employers who are a: tliclr wits'
ervrl to find competent youngsters to enter
tnew! cainnKi.
The writer was present at a recent
mmtnjr or sKiilea and employing etiem
ljt, when the chief question discussed
was. - Where are we to find enoujeh ex
perts to man our laboratories?" At the
came time It was freely eutea tnat ap'
plloana for laboratory situations, who had
(Tone through the prescribed course o
preparation at famous scientlflc achoola
were constantly being turned away be
eaus brief practical examinations showed
them unfit for the work they spired to
do. This condition is not peculiar to the
cheniical Industrlee; It r slfits In every
611G of thft grat IndustrUa mentioned
above.
For those who cannot find work in x.rac-
tlcal science because they are not thor-
oujlily prepared there are only . to
courses open: they must either prepare
themselves all over again or they must
take what they can get and be ready to
worn witu all their migiit and strength,
The cry. Is "help wanted. and there aro
few jobs worth while for those who are
not able and willing to helr In the full
est sense or the word, This Amerind,
which has more work to give to her sons.
both native and adopted, than there are
.one to do It. will not tolerate 1 1 in Imy
any more than the Incompetent.
Speaking1 about this feature of the situ-
at ton a famous architect gaid the other
Hay that there Is a heartbreaklriK short
age of competent and industrious youny
men with the necessary artistic sens to
do the minor work. In every blr archi
tect's establishment tn the country, yet
there are more applicants than there are
places, constantly.
"Many of the applicants who do not feet
places or, el tinsr them. fall to kep
them." he said, "ar young European!
trainca in European schools of the first
gradn. Home of these youngr men have
all tha artistic taste and perception re
quired, but few are willing; to worst as
every one must wortf Jn this country.
"I hava In mind at thin moment." he
continued, "a. young man, the son of a
prominent Parisian. The father wrote to
me asking that I allow hia son to come
to me and work with ma in America,
where he was sure the hoy could rise
rapidly to distinction and accumulate
more wealth in a few years than he
could in a lifetime pent in France. I
wrote:
'Send him along-, if you 'will, and X
will give him the chance you ask for.
But I aoyiBe you to keep him in France;
lie will not be able to maintain the Ameri
can pace.'
" "I" tj . father 'aant hint nl.nijr,' however.
and I put the youngster at work. I paid
him twice as much as he could have got
In Parle after two or three years of
practical work, although not bis; wages,
of course, and gave him every opportun-
ity. But do you suppose he made good?
Not a bit of it. He seemed willing enough,
but tho hard work and persistent appli
cation necessary In my office to keep pace
with the other young chaps employed
there knofketl him out completely.
He was positively bewildered by the
American rush. I was beginning: to fear
mat j .would ntive to send him home,
when I waa called away from my office
for a few days. On my return rre was
missing-, and I aaked for him. 'Gone
fcacK to France,' I was told, 'J-Je WHIteiJ
us to beg your pardon, and to say he
couldn't understand the American way In
the least.
"I could understand him perfectly, and
44
America's Cry
although he had some food points I was
glad he couldn't understand us. .Which
d rings me to the statement that Ameri
can workers are paid more than other
mainly because they earn more,"
Manual Workers Farina ttest.
Undoubtedly manual workers In tli
country, those who work with their
hands and wear overalls. are .retting:
more Ira proportion out of the present
wave-crest" than any but the highest
grades of those whose work entrbles them
to enclrcl. tlielr necks with linen collar,
and Incaae their feet tn polished shoe..
Often the bookkeeper jets less than the
bricklayer, while the salesman In the
retail shop la almost invariably much less
liberally paid than the man who Imper
ils his life working at diszy heights erect-
In? skyscraper frames. Perhaps thatV
all right: it is from the standpoint of the
bricklayer and the structural lronworlt-r
at all events. And although the clerk.
booKKfeper and the salesman would line
the better wages of the beat paid work
ers at skilled trades. there are few
among the "'bo tied -shirt" wage earner.-
who would charge places with the othrr J
even at the Increased pay. Tt seems odd
or otherwise according to the way
you look at it.
Mow great lias been the increase or
waives and of prices? It la too early to
make accurate calculations as yet. Both
are hlKhcr than since 18SO. Tliat yesr-
prlcca Of living, according to Pun. were
122.GT6. aa compared with loS.ITi on IV
cember 1. 190C When Bulletin No. 65
was issued by the Department of 1 a bo
th increase of the purchasing power of
wekly ttawi m 3.5 rcr cent over that
of 1SS4. the year of lowest prices, but
there have been great chansRs since then.
While prices have gone up the advances
In pfes made by the $m rftllro com'
panles whose net earnings, by the way,
were 78S.OOO.OOO. nearly 97.000.000 more
than last year the United States teel
Corporation ami 0tnr employes ot many
thousands have publicly announced
Increases at a rate amounttnj to
hundreds of millions a year. The Standard
Oil 1 the latest great corporation to put
wages up. At the fame tlmo thousand
of smaller employers have raised wane
also, but of these advances the general
public can know nothing.
Meanwhile the call for help is louder
than ever, and accordingly the Immigra
tion for 1907 will probably be th lara-est
In history. That the foreign worKers tn
this country were never bo prosperous as
now is ahown by the unprecedentedly
liarare number of them who went homo
for Christmas more thatn M.OOO ItaU.na,
Counting thoee of no other nationality.
(Copyright. 1B0T. hy Dexter MafhtUl.)
Bntte XTserdl to Set Them t'p o Cel-
ebrate trie Glorious Fourth.
ICew "V-orle Sun .
The man from Butte, Mont., stopped
to look at the Christmas trees stacned
up outside the grocery store.
Well, well." he said. "Those malts
me think of Fourth of July at home.'"
"TOU mean Christinas, don't your
"I mean just what I laid. They
make mo think of Fourth of July."
"Butte's a srreat 1,1 li town, you
know, but It ain't tho kind that ilo
soms as the rose. Ko. elr. It ain't. Fart
Is. therr's folk., out ther that have
been trying: their darndeat for more
than 21) years to raise even a trr-e."
"Thoy didn't insist on any lofty.
spreading: sriant. either. Jtist any lit
tle mean ornery thins with leaves on
it would half tickled 'em to death.
"Butte folks ain't tHe kind that rIv
tin raay. so we have grot a few tree
out there now, thouath you mlMTht not
think much of tliem at first "Bignt. Put
up to a few years ago a trr-e was ft
arorxl to Hutte eyes u water Is to a
tlllrsty man,
"And ao tt happened that ir w want
ed to spread ourselves the first thin?
we did was to have some trees hauled
in from the canons. 15 or 20 miles .
away. Every holiday that came along.
Christmas. Thanksi'vlntf, Fourth of
July. Miners' Union day evory sort of
Mperisi occaalon the WaK'onlottd S of
trees came rolling into tow, - and for
once our streets were lined viYi tucm.
"You folks down But here de.orato
with bunting svnd fia and. llsrlits. But
the rarest and consequently tho tn -it
decorative thin? in uutu wai a tm.
So trees were what we wre get on
having.
"We didn't throw them awy as soon.
as the immediate reMiTitjr wn er,
either. They wer planted firmly in
place and Just as ion as there was "V
suspicion of srreennesa about them they
were Kept there,
A11 the buplness riouFCB st tho
trees out in front, but the saloons and
the marHeta made tha finest show.
JI)', put our Butt's maracta wm ortn
a trip to Montana Just in themselves
"In the rlrat olace they had masse,
of r.'.-n fresh from tho raiiyona for a.
background, And against this bacK
Rround were whole deer, alieep. Leaf
and strings of gamcbirds.
"But It wasn't only the business
firm that Imported trees to town.
People uned to buy tacm tnd set them
up in their yards, especially for the
Fourth of July.
"That was the greatest treat you
could give the children. Buy 'cm an
evergreen tree Just off the mountains
s.nd you'd make em happy for a month.
"Why. I've seen two or three cltil-
dren trying: to crawl in under a nutc
tree not more than there or four fot
htsrh that made a patch of shtx-do nbout
as big as my hand Kerch i f. Thay hutl
all their trucK witn incm nna were
pretending to be having: a plcnio.
"That was beforu tho street railway
company ran out to a placo 'vli-rn
there are some real trees mive -nu
growing- Since folks can trot out t'
the,- trees there they don't sot tip tb
cut ones the way they used to-
"Put I don't think Vil cv.ir soe a
fhrUtmas tree without it en Hint,' 111.
the picture of thorio wfl ued to bavfl
stloklns up alt over town to
fourth Qf July."
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ON TRAITS OF ANIMALS
Burroughs Says Tliey Do Not Com
mit iStaicicfo or Put. .'p Uluff Oamas.
I do not believe that animals ever com
mit suicide." says John BurromhB in
Outint. "1 do not believe that they have
any notions of death, or take any note of
time, or ever put up any bluff game, or
ever deliberate together, or form lans
or forecast tho seaeons.
"They way practice deception, as when
a bird feigns lameness or paralysis to de-
coy you away from her nest, but this, of
course, is instinctive and not conscious
deception,
"There Is at times something that sue-
rests co-operation amonr them, u when
wolves hunt in relays, as they are said to
do, or when they hunt in couples, one en-
cagln? the Quarry In front while the other
assault it from the rear; or when quail
roost upon the sround in a rinaj, their
tails tu the center, their heads outward:
or, as when cattle or horses form a circle
when attacked In the open hy wild beast.
the cattle with their heads outward and
the horses with tl.er heels.
"Ot course an this is instinctive ana not
the result of deliberation. The horse al
ways turns bis tall to
and cows and steers. 11
ly. turn their heads,"